Self-Assessment of Transferable Skills

You are a junior engineer attending college completing a HND in Electronic Engineering whilst in full-time employment for an engineering company. You have been asked by your line manager, Mithun, to present to him the training and qualifications you need to achieve to become a professional engineer.

TASK 1: LO2.1

A. Complete the ‘Self Assessment of Transferable Skills’ form in the appendix of this assignment.

B. Evaluate your own current skills and competencies by comparing the results from your completed ‘Self Assessment of Transferable Skills’ form with parts D and E of the ‘UK-SPEC Competence and Commitment Requirements for IEng Registration’, and complete the ‘Self Assessment of Transferable Skills Reflective Review’, found in Unit 27 on the VLE

Task 2: LO2.2

Identify your own development needs and the activities required to meet them. To do this, list the criteria you are either week in or have no experience in, and then identify the activities you need to make your weaknesses, strengths.

Task 3: LO2.3

To become a professional engineer, you need to have achieved the correct qualifications and experience. You need to identify the qualifications and experience you need to become an ‘Incorporated Engineer’ using the ‘Standard Routes to Registration as a Professional Engineer or Technician’ and Parts A to C of the ‘UK-SPEC Competences and Commitment Standard for Incorporated Engineers, found in the appendix of this assignment.

Task 4: LO2.4

Create a personal and professional plan using the ‘Developing: Goal Setting and Action Planning’ form, which can be found in Unit 27 on the VLE. Use the table to plan your goals needed to become a professional engineer.

B. Evaluation of Self Assessment of Transferable Skills

On the basis of the ‘Self Assessment of Transferable Skills’ my current skills and competencies are:

I have best quality as a Team worker. I understand the principles of team work and motivate others with same or common goals. I respect feelings values and views of others for negotiation and do reviewing of the progress on a regular basis. I pose the quality of good self management, effective communication process and efficient information literacy as an engineer. I critically think about the problems and take effective and most suitable options for solving the problem.

There are many skills and qualities that are needed for becoming an effective competent engineer. Some of them are technical competence, communication skills, leadership skills, teamwork, and innovative thinking. According to the ‘Self Assessment of Transferable Skills’ test, I have good team work abilities. However, I had lack of identification of the key principles for making connections among the acquired knowledge areas and willingness for changing my concepts, practices and ideas with the trending knowledge. I have to improve my awareness for the type of job openings that are available for me to acquire.

Identifying Development Needs

The following is the list of my weakness according to the Self Assessment of Transferable Skills’ test with possible solutions:

The steps one need to take for professionally registering as an engineer or technician are:

Joining a professional engineering institution that has been got licensed from Engineering council. The institution selected would be based on the area of the work one want to do.

Recording of the professional development using academic qualifications, training of employee and development scheme.

Applying for assessment after one feels that he/she is ready for demonstration of technicality and professional competences.

There are some examples of registration as a professional engineer.

Andrew Houston has explained that for him the key source to register, accredit and professional recognition was Institute of Water. The institute was really helpful, accommodating and sociable for him during the process. The feedback of the process has also been invaluable for identifying the areas that he needed to work for becoming better professional engineer or technician.

Another way for registration as a professional engineer or technician is through membership with IIE or institution of incorporated engineers. Ikediashi Ambrose Umuodum had successfully registered as IEng from the engineering council.

In business Enterprises, the objectives of the business can be achieved by following the SMART approach (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time bound). Locke in his research had found out in his research that if harder goals are set, the workers would get more motivated to do the work. It develops sense of accomplishment after achieving among the workers. He later on deduced fived principles by which the chances of success could be improved. They are Clarity, Challenge, Commitment, Feedback, and Task Complexity. These principles would help in forming the most appropriate and improvised way for achieving the success of the business.

Clarity: the clearer goals of the business organization would make them measurable and attainable. The clear goal setting would help in defining the work in a definite set of time for completion. It has helped in less misunderstanding of the primitive goal of the enterprise. The employees would know what they have to do in the assigned task. For example- If the employee would be assigned to complete 50% of the assignment in limited time, he/she would do their best and complete half the assignment within the time. It is good to know about the requirements of the assignment before starting it.

Standard Routes to Registration as a Professional Engineer

Challenge: The most important method to motivate the employees is putting challenges in front of them. The attainable challenges would help to them to be pushed to their extent and attain the necessary results. Rewards for challenges motivate the employees for achieving the challenge. It would boost them for becoming more enthusiastic in their work. Challenges and rewards act as a natural means for motivation to the employees.

Commitment: The goals that are acceptable by all the employees would lead to commitment towards the work. The goals must be set consistent and relevant to their working process. The employees must consider the set goals to be consistent. It would help them in getting more and more involved in the activities. The involvement in the activities by the employee would result in forming commitment to the work. The commitment would further enhance the employees to achieve the goals that have been set.

Feedback: Feedback is the most important part of an effective communication. It would provide information for setting right type of goal. The feedback from the other end would help in providing clarified expressions, adjusting the goals as per their difficulties, and gaining recognition. The employees would express their views regarding the goal through the feedback.

Task Complexity: The task complexity would also act as a means for taking special care for ensuring that the work does not become over for the employees. The high complexity of the task would de-motivate the employees and it would affect the overall performance of the employees.

Hence it can be said that the goal setting is very crucial for getting success in any activity. Locke’s research has confirmed the efficiency of the SMART goal description for setting the goals of successful business development.

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